In this tutorial, we'll use port triggering to make Identd work and port forwarding to make DCC work. The beauty of using Port Triggering is the overall simplicity. It doesn't matter whether you've configured your network with a DHCP server or assigned each computer IP addresses manually. The router doesn't care. With port triggering you're simply setting up "services" that don't need a specified IP address.
Port forwarding is a bit different. In this case you are assigning specific ports to specific computers. If you have more than one computer on your LAN and you don't configure your computer with a static IP address, port forwarding can get screwed up. If you want to know the details of why things get screwed up and you skipped the overview I've written,
click here to go back and read it.
This tutorial is specific for the
Linksys Etherfast Router
family. If you have a different router, visit
the Port Forward website. There you will find port forwarding and triggering instructions for just about every router that has those capabilities.
